One of my favourite ingredients is garlic. Last year I attended the Koonya Garlic Festival for the first time, we had a Thermomix stall for the whole day & lots of our team came along. I created 2 recipes for the festival which I demonstrated to passers by Toum & Steamed Garlic & Pesto Scrolls. Anyway through this event I met Janice Sutton who invited me to share some of my recipes in her garlic cookbook; Garlic Feast. The advanced copies arrived just in time for this year’s Koonya Garlic Festival Feb 27th.

This year I had my INSPIRE apron on & went up on stage with my Thermomix and my friends Sam Berechree (you may remember him from MKR a few series ago) and Charlie. We demonstrated a couple of my recipes from the Garlic Feast cook book. Arwen’s Heavenly Hummus which has a few variations, a pizza with black garlic, goats cheese & prosciutto. Sam made one of his dishes from the book Rosemary & Pear Soufflé with Garlic Ice Cream & Maple Bacon. YUM!

The other 2 recipes I have in the cookbook are my garlic & feta sweet potato wedges & my garlic lamb pie. I did some recipe testing last year & created garlic ice cream just for something different, Sam had already submitted his roasted garlic vanilla & fresh thyme ice cream that was much nicer. The crowds lined up to try the garlic ice cream & everyone loved it!.